Thank you.
We know the values that we see playing out in professional sport or at the Olympic level filter down to children's sport.
One of the areas we need to tackle is how sport in this country is funded. When we have programs like Own the Podium funding athletes and teams based primarily on their medal performances or potential for medal finishes, without consideration for the process by which those medals are achieved, it risks the focus on athlete health and well-being becoming very marginal or non-existent. It contributes to this “win at all costs” approach...based on the funding model.
I think there's also value in changing the narrative. Rather than focusing on performance excellence, suggest that the best avenue to obtain performance outcomes is through athlete health and well-being. That's changing the narrative across the sport landscape.
Again, the funding question has to be part of solving the safe sport challenge.